Name
Thomas Stephen Chambers
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
15/06/1915
22
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
17963
Bedfordshire Regiment
'B' Company, 2nd Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
LE TOURET MEMORIAL
Panel 10 and 11.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Watford Borough Roll of Honour, St James' Church Memorial, Watford Fields
Pre War
Son of Thomas and Rebecca Henrietta (nee HOPEWELL) CHAMBERS.
His parents married by banns 9 October 1892 at St Mary’s, Watford. Rebecca died 1915 in Watford aged 44, and was buried 28 July in Vicarage Road Cemetery, Watford; Thomas died 1919 in Watford aged 56, and was buried 20 June, also in Vicarage Road Cemetery.
Thomas was born 1893 in Watford, and resided in Watford.
On the 1901 Census, aged 8 he lived in Watford, with his parents and four siblings. On the 1911 Census, a cabinet maker aged 18, he still lived in Watford, with his parents and five siblings.
Wartime Service
He enlisted in Bedford; was entitled to the Victory, British War and 1914-15 Star medals, his qualifying date being 8 June 1915, and was killed or died of wounds received in action in an unsuccessful attack in the vicinity of The Crater near Givenchy-les-La-Bassée, from where he had been reported missing.
Additional Information
Unfortunately, Thomas’ Service Record appears to be one that did not survive the World War Two bombing.
Acknowledgments
Sue Carter (Research) and Watford Museum (ROH on line via www.ourwatfordhistory.org.uk)
